Political Activism
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From  “Canada Can’t Hide Genocide”Marching for Indigenous Rights From: Whose Streets? |
From Whose Streets?: The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest | Lisa Currier | 4 | 2011 | $0.40 Add |
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From Caught in the CrossfireFrom: Whose Streets? |
From Whose Streets?: The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest | Elroy Yau | 3 | 2011 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 15: Women’s Work and Capitalism’s Changing Employment Opportunities, 1910-29 |
This chapter outlines how women’s waged work expanded in the early decades of the twentieth century with employment in offices, banking, and retail. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 19: Outcasts and Dissidents in the Early 1930s |
This chapter discusses the examines the 1930s hobo jungles emerged due to the unemployment crisis and militant groups such as the Communist Worker’s Unity League (WUL) and the 1935 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 20: Communists, CCFers, Workers, and the Unemployed1937, a Year of Rebellion |
This chapter discusses the role played by the Popular Front united Canadian Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the anti-fascist cause. | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesFirst Nations and Métis in the 1930s |
This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 6: Urbanization and Immigration, 1890-1929 |
This chapter looks at urban growth between 1901 and 1931, during which immigrant workers experienced widening wage gaps, slum conditions, and extreme inequality in access to public-health. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  ChronologyFrom: In Defiance |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add | |
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From  Civil DisobedienceFrom: Languages of the Unheard |
this chapter explores the paradox of civil disobedience—its law-respecting legal defiance—and the ethical concerns that this paradox raises. | Stephen D'Arcy | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add |
 NEW! Class ActionHow Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force |
In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions … | Andy Hanson | 276 | 2021 | View |
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From  Class, Party, StateThe Twentieth-Century Socialist Experience |
Leo Panitch; Sam Gindin | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add | |
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From Collective HysteriaFrom: In Defiance |
Conflicting attitudes from mainstream media towards the strike and students. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
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From Collective Movement, Collective PowerPeople of Colour, Migrant Justice, and the G20 From: Whose Streets? |
From Whose Streets?: The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest | Syed Hussan | 9 | 2011 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Communicate, Communicate . . .From: Fighting Dirty |
The story of Jeff Whan, retired IBM executive and anti-dump activist. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From Community Organizing for a Global ProtestFrom: Whose Streets? |
How the Ontario Coalition against Poverty prepared for the G20 demonstrations. | Mac Scott | 6 | 2011 | $0.60 Add |
